Dudes, help me out!

I have this really bad habit of not sticking to one tales games at a time. When the story gets dull and a bit lacking on excitement, I switch games. I did that with Graces last march, and did that with Symphonia last may, but I played Xillia 2 to the end ever since release, and I continued on to finish Symphonia after.

Now, here's my dilemma, I was extremely disappointed with Dawn of the New World's lack of ability to level up the original Symphonia characters, and how huge of a gap their level limit is compared to Emil and Marta. I'm tempted to go back to Graces but since I'm neck deep in their story and I haven't played it since march, I'm probably gonna start it over.

What's your take on this? I really wanted to play Lloyd and Regal with a more proportionate avatar, but I have no control over how I want to play them and I'm gonna be stuck with two protagonist I don't like and a few digimons. Suddenly, Graces' childhood prologue looks pretty appealing.

The Symphonia characters being level locked really doesn't matter much unless you plan to play a difficulty higher than Hard, as even at level 50, they're still useful to have around, especially Lloyd who can basically infinite combo everything.